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I teach English literature (mostly British, mostly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I was trained as a Romanticist, but at this point my research is as much about information science as literary criticism. I’m especially interested in applying machine learning algorithms to large digital collections. Because “large digital collections” don’t quite exist yet in the form we would need for interesting literary research, a lot of my work involves correcting and enriching them. Some collaborative work on those problems is presented at usesofscale.com. The project I’m exploring most actively at the moment applies classification algorithms to enrich page-level metadata about genre in a collection of a million volumes.
When I’m not messing about with computers and text, I sometimes mess about with flowers
